It is a little dated now, but it is an instructive story. It comes from a
midweek night, a few years past, when Paul Tisdale and Steve Perryman —
Exeter City’s manager and director of football respectively — decided to
spend the evening watching a rival club in action.

After the game, the pair decided it was only polite to go and wish their host
manager well. It would not be fair to identify the man in question, but he
could not have been more welcoming when Tisdale and Perryman, an old friend,
knocked on the door.